Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Classroom Behaviour Management in the Post-School Sector
Student and Teacher Perspectives on the Battle Against Being Educated
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated. It analyses models of classroom behaviour management, with examples of theory critiquing practice and practice criticizing theory....
'Whole-Brain' Behaviour Management in the Classroom
Every Piece of the Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Representing a brave and insightful shift away from narrow perspectives on behaviour management, this book draws practitioners towards a more holistic understanding of ourselves and how we impact on children’s learning and behaviour.
The authors’ brilliant new conceptual model of ‘whole-brain’...
Education for Special Needs
The Curative Education Course
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Steiner describes polarities of illness and courses of treatment from a comprehensive analysis. He considers many cases and gives indications on therapeutic exercises, diet and medicine, how the ‘I’ relates directly to the physical body, and spirit and soul need to be taken into consideration...
Crescere emotivamente competenti
Proposte dalle scuole della Svizzera Italiana
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Nonostante le abilità e competenze emotive siano quello che fa di noi persone sane ed adattate o infelici e disadattate, e nonostante esse siano tra le più importanti life skills, il loro insegnamento/apprendimento è stato per anni affidato alla fortuna di avere una famiglia, un parente o un amico...
Intervention Research
A Practical Guide for Developing Evidence-based School Prevention Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book offers a step-by-step guide to intervention research, including the methods and techniques that researchers, higher degree research students and others can use when pursuing intervention research in schools and other settings. Guided by the Intervention Research Framework, it also provides...
An Empty Seat in Class
Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America’s schools. For each of these tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education...
Improving Inquiry in Social Science
A Volume in Honor of Lee J. Cronbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume celebrates Lee J. Cronbach's considerable contributions to the methodology of social and behavioral science. Comprised of chapters written by colleagues and contemporaries of the highly influential scholar, it offers a range of ideas, perspectives, and new approaches to improving social science inquiry.
Perezhivanie, Emotions and Subjectivity
Advancing Vygotsky’s Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book draws upon Vygotsky’s idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration. These concepts are crucial for explaining and understanding children’s development from a cultural-historical perspective. A book which...
Student Self-Esteem
Integrating the Self
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1995
From foreword:
Few psychological variables affecting the lives of children are given as much emphasis by mental health professionals and the general public as self-esteem. Psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan viewed the concept of self as the "bedrock of the human personality," and a deterioration...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
“A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom. Assuming that Universal Grammar plays a role in second language development, it explores generalisations from GenSLA research. The book aims to build bridges between the...
by J.B. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The author captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms: code-switching, mediation, and transparency. She provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding, pulling together research related to the relationship between language...
by James M. Magrini
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book develops for the readers Plato’s Socrates’ non-formalized “philosophical practice” of learning-through-questioning in the company of others. In doing so, the writer confronts Plato’s Socrates, in the words of John Dewey, as the “dramatic, restless, cooperatively inquiring philosopher"...